The Oswald Watt Gold Medal is an Australian aviation award named for Oswald Watt (1878–1921), a decorated pilot in World War I.
It originated in 1921 after the death of Oswald Watt and is awarded for "A most brilliant performance in the air or the most notable contribution to aviation by an Australian or in Australia" by the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia. As it is awarded on merit it is not an annual award; between the award's creation and 1999 it had been awarded a total of 48 times. It was not awarded in the years 2000 - 2010.[1]
1925 E. J. Jones – flew from Melbourne to Normanton in north-west Queensland and back to Melbourne
1926 Flight Lieutenant Ivor McIntyre – second award; pilot on a flight with Wing Commander (later Air Marshal) Richard Williams from RAAF Point Cook (now RAAF Williams) near Melbourne to the Solomon Islands and return
1927 Bert Hinkler – flew non-stop from London to Latvia as part of a business trip
1928 Bert Hinkler – second award; flew from England to Australia
1950 Martin Warner – inadvertently set a British Empire altitude record for a glider of 23,500 feet (7,160 m) after he flew a Slingsby T.25 Gull 4 into a cloud and it was caught in an updraft[4]
1976 Clive Canning – flew a Thorp T-18 that he had built himself from Melbourne to London and return; his arrival in London on 1 July completed the first Australia-England flight in a homebuilt aircraft[5][6]
2012 John W. Dickenson – "for a most notable contribution to Aviation by an Australian for his invention of the modern Hang Glider and making improvements in flight safety"
2013 Marj Davis Gillespie – "her voluntary contribution of sixteen years to the Royal Federation of Aero Clubs of Australia, the Flying Training Industry and General Aviation"
2016 George Alfred (Peter) Lloyd – second award; "for continued and valuable service to the Aviation Industry and in particular the safety of aviation"
